[BioPhd in Social Sciences. Graduated in Social Work. Graduated in Humanities. She has received different research awards in Social Sciences. She teaches in the degree of Social Work and Social Services, in several Masters and in Doctorates. Visiting professor in Lisbon (Portugal). Research lines: professional practices, childhood and youth, health, women and vulnerable groups. Author of books and articles indexed in international databases. She has been PI in different innovation and teaching projects on research and social intervention. Mercedes.Botija@uv.esgraphy, english version]

Lucía I. Llinares Insa is a Doctor in Cum laude Psychology (University of Valencia, 1998). She is associate Professor in Department of Social Psychology of the University of Valencia. He is a member of the ‘Transition to the world of work research group from at-risk populations’ of the University of Valencia. This group has obtained the research prize in the European Union of VET Excellence Awards 2019. Author of numerous articles on the discipline in books and international scientific journals on, for example, employability, gender, unemployment, work, training, etc. such as: Frontiers in Psychology, Interantional Journal of Environmental Reseach and Public Health, etc. He has had as a researcher and has been a principal investigator in research projects funded by different national and international organizations, some of them granted to research excellence groups.

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José Vicente Pérez Cosín, social worker, doctor and graduate in sociology, master in local development and management of social services. Lecturer at the Universitat de València. Director of the department of Treball Social i Serveis Socials (2011-2017). She teaches in two levels: social work (research, diagnosis and evaluation; community social services, children and adolescents) and nursing (health and social work) and five postgraduate courses: social welfare: family intervention; Socio-sanitary care to dependency; Territory and environment and local development planning; In this last masters has been its director. His research experience focuses on the analysis of public policies in welfare systems (Childhood and Adolescence, Community Development, Active Aging, etc ...). He is a senior researcher in the area of ​​social cohesion of IIDL - UVEG (it is the IP of the group Social Services Community); Directs doctoral theses in the programs: "Local Development and International Cooperation" and "Social Sciences". He has directed European R & D & I competitive projects and research contracts. He is an expert evaluator of ANEP and AAC. He has published scientific articles in national and international impact journals, registered in prestigious institutions such as: ISI-Thompson Reuters, Scopus, Latindex, Redalyc, In-Res, Dice-Cindoc. He has published books and book chapters in prestigious publishers such as Tirant lo Blanc and PUV of the Universitat de València. Participates as an expert evaluator in scientific journals in the area of ​​social work and social services, local development and nursing. He has been Vice-president of the first international congress of the social work area. And it is usually part of doctoral theses courts of Spanish universities.

He has directed and defended, to date with the maximum qualification, nine doctoral theses. He has trained pre-doctoral researchers with public funding of the National Predoctoral Programs (FPU) and Autonomous Programs (Val I + D). It has been awarded by the Generalitat Valenciana (AVAP) with the first prize of prospective research. He has obtained positive evaluation of his research accredited by the CNEAI. He is Vice-President of the Conference of Directors and Deans of Social Work and Social Services of the Spanish Universities.